Holland with Boston (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK constituency main Holland with Boston was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

History

The constituency was created in 1918 and abolished in 1997. By the time of its abolition, it was a safe Conservative seat. However, Holland with Boston had been held by both the Liberal and Labour parties before the Second World War.

From 1885 to 1918 the parliamentary borough of Boston returned one MP, while the Lincolnshire county division of Spalding, in the south-east of the historic county, elected another MP. In 1918 these two seats were merged to form this constituency.

When created in 1918 the constituency had the same boundaries as the traditional sub-division of the historic county known as the Parts of Holland, which had become an administrative county in 1889.

In 1997 the constituency was abolished and replaced by two new constituencies, Boston and Skegness and South Holland and The Deepings.

Boundaries

1918–1974: The county of the Parts of Holland.

1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Boston, the Urban District of Spalding, and the Rural Districts of Boston, East Elloe, and Spalding.

1983–1997: The Borough of Boston, and the District of South Holland wards of Donington, Fleet, Gedney, Holbeach Hurn, Holbeach St John, Holbeach Town, Long Sutton, Moulton, Sutton Bridge, The Saints, and Whaplode.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1918	William Royce	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1924 by-election	Arthur Dean	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1929 by-election	Sir James Blindell	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1931		National Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1937 by-election	Sir Herbert Butcher	National Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1950		National Liberal & Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1966	Sir Richard Body	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Boston and Skegness and South Holland and the Deepings

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

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Elections in the 1920s

General election 1918: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		George Peel	5,557	25.2
Majority			1,070	4.8
Turnout			22,063	55.2
Registered electors			40,004
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General election 1922: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Henry Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy	11,898	37.3
		Ewan Siegfried Agnew	7,535	23.6
Majority			591	1.8
Turnout			31,922	76.9
Registered electors			41,516
	hold		Swing	−1.5

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General election 1923: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Arthur Dean	13,331	45.9
Majority			2,366	8.2
Turnout			29,028	68.8
Registered electors			42,220
	hold		Swing	+3.2

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1924 Holland with Boston by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Hugh Dalton	12,101	37.1
		Richard Pattinson Winfrey	7,596	23.3
Majority			806	2.5
Turnout			32,604	77.2
Registered electors			42,220
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	−5.4

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General election 1924: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		G. R. Blanco White	10,689	32.8
		Richard Pattinson Winfrey	6,413	19.7
Majority			4,770	14.7
Turnout			32,561	75.8
Registered electors			42,929
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+11.5

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1929 Holland with Boston by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		G. R. Blanco White	9,294	27.3
		Frederick Van den Berg	8,257	24.2
		F.W. Dennis	3,541	10.4
Majority			3,706	10.8
Turnout			34,092	75.6
Registered electors			45,079
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+15.9

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General election 1929: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Frederick Van den Berg	15,877	35.1
		Charles Edward Snook	9,556	21.1
Majority			3,915	8.7
Turnout			45,225	81.5
Registered electors			55,522
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+18.3

Elections in the 1930s

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General election 1931: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Parker	8,840	22.5
Majority			21,535	55.0
Turnout			39,215	68.5
	hold		Swing

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General election 1935: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Ernest E. Reynolds	13,264	34.5
Majority			11,898	31.0
Turnout			38,426	63.6
	hold		Swing

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1937 Holland with Boston by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Ernest E. Reynolds	14,556	40.0
Majority			7,290	20.0
Turnout			36,396	59.4
	hold		Swing	−5.5

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal National: Herbert Butcher
• Labour: E Kennedy
• British Union: Sylvia Morris

Elections in the 1940s

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General election 1945: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Arthur E. Monks	21,263	44.1
Majority			5,676	11.8
Turnout			48,202	72.9
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

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General election 1950: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Horace W. Lee	22,374	39.8
		Raymond D Blankley	3,500	6.2
Majority			7,962	14.1
Turnout			68,411	82.1
	hold		Swing

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General election 1951: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Janet A Walters	22,994	42.0
Majority			8,689	15.9
Turnout			69,453	78.7
	hold		Swing

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General election 1955: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William A Rippon	19,329	39.8
		Cyril Valentine	5,581	7.0
Majority			9,083	13.4
Turnout			70,040	76.1
	hold		Swing

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General election 1959: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John DT Williamson	17,839	32.9
		Cyril Valentine	7,334	13.5
Majority			11,174	20.6
Turnout			70,588	76.7
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

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General election 1964: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Walter Long	23,451	44.6
Majority			5,631	10.7
Turnout			71,064	73.9
	hold		Swing

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General election 1966: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Robert H. Hickman	26,367	49.7
Majority			316	0.6
Turnout			53,050	74.9
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

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General election 1970: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Robert N.H. Sackur	24,241	41.9
Majority			9,339	16.1
Turnout			77,245	74.8
	hold		Swing

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General election February 1974: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		M Cornish	18,180	28.3
		Raymond Stephenson	15,466	24.0
Majority			12,381	19.3
Turnout			79,775	80.4
	hold		Swing

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General election October 1974: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		M Cornish	19,461	33.5
		Raymond Stephenson	10,476	18.0
Majority			8,684	14.9
Turnout			80,454	72.1
	hold		Swing

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General election 1979: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Malcolm Fox	17,908	28.0
		J Wright	10,480	16.4
Majority			17,532	27.5
Turnout			85,578	74.5
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

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General election 1983: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Carole Le Brun	13,226	29.2
		John Moore	6,970	15.4
Majority			11,736	26.0
Turnout			63,562	71.0
	hold		Swing

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General election 1987: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Carole Le Brun	9,817	20.7
		John Hough	9,734	20.4
		David James	405	0.8
Majority			17,595	37.1
Turnout			65,539	72.2
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

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General election 1992: Holland with Boston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Hough	15,328	29.0
		Nigel Ley	8,434	15.9
Majority			13,831	26.1
Turnout			52,921	77.9
	hold		Swing	−5.6

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire
• 1924 Holland with Boston by-election
• 1929 Holland with Boston by-election
• 1937 Holland with Boston by-election

Sources

• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk.htm Template:Webarchive Area Studies, UK: politics, elections and government in Britain
• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)